Comments on: Pre-debate musings on the bloodsport of dissecting Palin performances

By: sisu

sisu — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:37:21 +0000

“The natural order of the world is chaos, not calm”…

The natural order of the world is chaos, not calm, writes scholar of ancient military history and modrin-day fahmah Victor Davis Hanson in the quotation not of the day or the week or the year but of the centuries. Had…

By: br549

br549 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:17:49 +0000

Steve H:
In my opinion, the best we could hope for in voting them all out would be to get a message across, and slow the change over from a republic to a socialist nation. That IS where we are heading. Even those afraid to even whisper the word have to realize it is so.

The democrats for the lies and deceit. The republicans for cowardice. They need to go. Some need to be prosecuted and incarcerated. They are costing us billions, more likely trillions, and our freedom. It is treasonous to our way of life. That’s how I see it.

Entrenched bureaucrats will be harder to remove, take longer, and be less successful. I just don’t see an alternative. To be fired from the government, one has to go postal, as it stands now. Unless one is a member of a republican president’s cabinet.

What surprises me is the lack of realization of those who are willing for this change to occur, who are not actually government employees or elected officials.
They do not seem to realize they will not be included in the ruling class. They too, will be deserted and left with the rest.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:10:27 +0000

The other day I made a connection between the attacks on Sarah Palin and the outcome of the 2002 Maryland gubernatorial race. In that election, the incumbent lieutenant governor, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, was defeated by an upstart Republican who entered the race as a clear underdog. No Republican had been elected Governor of Maryland since Spiro T. Agnew in 1966. An interesting footnote: Agnew served one term as governor. His only previous elective position was Baltimore County executive in 1962. Townsend lost her lead for a number of reasons. The administration of Governor Parris Glendenning had run up a significant budget deficit and Townsend became the scapegoat for that and other administration shortcomings. She also performed poorly in press conferences and was characterized as being a poor speaker. This in spite of her being Harvard educated, well spoken and certainly the choice of the Democratic Party establishment. It seems that the perception of a candidate not handling the press well can be a severe blow when exploited by opponents, as happened to Townsend. Palin faces the challenge of proving she is “not incompetent”, having been tried and found guilty by a jury of hypercritical news anchors and every female liberal pundit on the planet.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:48:21 +0000

Tom: so you were indoctrinated by your carpenters against your will? By the way, if they were anything like some of the workmen on my house a while back, they might have had a lot more education than that. I once hired a former high school principal turned house painter; he said the work paid better and was much more relaxing.

But come to think of it, he smoked a pipe and listened to NPR.

By: michaele

michaele — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:43:18 +0000

Excellent post and analysis, as usual, Neo. I can’t help but think that many (if not most) of those who have contributed to this current national and global financial meltdown are the products of “elite” educational institutions. How many Harvard MBAs are crawling around in the upper echelons of top financial institutional management. Frankly, if today’s crisis is the result of what advanced college degrees produce, give me a plain talking, practical minded governor from Alaska who has proven she knows how to balance a budget. Common sense should be rated as “priceless” in a Mastercard ad.

By: SteveH

SteveH — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:35:13 +0000

Br549,
I’d be interested to know if things would change the least bit if EVERY elected politician in Washington was voted out. Arent they really just the talking heads faction of an entrenched govt buracracy infested with liberal mindsets? Not to mention the incredible media onslaught that would take place against anyone showing up there to rock the boat.

By: Chris Hutcherson

Chris Hutcherson — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:26:54 +0000

How long will it be before more money is required, Is this just a short term fix ?

By: FredHjr

FredHjr — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:24:14 +0000

Someone in the Oval Office or the Senate owes us an explanation why the bill is earmarked to the gills with pork.

Holding the financial markets, our businesses, and our jobs hostage to this kind of malfeasance is criminal.

By: br549

br549 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:11:22 +0000

As expected, the bail out bill has a wheel barrow load of pork in it. The first bill was only what – 3 pages? It was never meant to be passed. It was a stall tactic to get this 435 page monstrosity written and passed.

Question: How many senators read, and understand all 435 pages? Oh, hell. How many just read all 435 of them?

WE NEED TO VOTE THEM ALL OUT. ALL OF THEM.

To quote Glenn Beck, they are pissing on us, every day.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:41:09 +0000

“I always ask if the cow was killed for it’s leather would it then be OK to eat the meat?”
Prince Gautama already answered this question. He did not refuse to eat cow meat as soon as he was assured that the cow was slaughtered not specially for him.